Initial release of Predator Control 1.0.0

PredatorSense replacement for the Acer Predator Helios 16 (PH16-71) on Linux:

- predatord: root service for profiles, fans (incl. temperature curves),
  keyboard RGB, lightbar and battery health; restores settings at boot
  and after resume, switches profiles on AC/battery changes
- Qt desktop app with dashboard, fan curve editor and per-key RGB studio
- Plasma 6 panel widget with quick controls
- predatorctl command line tool
- predator_wmi kernel module (DKMS) as a minimal WMI method bridge

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
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+## 1.0.0 – 2026-10-04
+
+First release.
+
+### Added
+- **predatord** system service: settings persistence, restore at boot and after resume,
+  automatic AC/battery profile switching, temperature-based fan curves, live state snapshot
+- **Predator Control** desktop app (Qt/PySide6): dashboard, performance modes, fan control with
+  curve editor, RGB Studio (hardware effects, per-key painter with live preview, presets,
+  lightbar), battery health, firmware options
+- **Plasma 6 panel widget** with quick controls that opens the app on the matching page
+- **predatorctl** command line tool
+- **predator_wmi** kernel module (DKMS) as a minimal WMI bridge for fans, lightbar,
+  battery health and firmware options
+- Keyboard layouts: German ISO and US ANSI
+- Installer and uninstaller for Arch-based distributions (generic `--no-deps` mode for others)